CHICAGO, May 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced
that more than 310,000 Micro E-mini futures contracts traded
yesterday across all four indices - the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100,
Russell 2000 and Dow Jones Industrial Average indexes. Total
cumulative volume included more than 75 firms facilitating trading
– making Micro E-minis the most successful new product launch in
CME Group's history.
"We are pleased to see strong customer interest and support for
the new Micro E-mini equity index futures," said Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity
Index and Alternative Investment Products. "This new product
further strengthens CME Group's ability to help traders of all
sizes manage portfolio risk -- around the clock and around the
world -- using our liquid and time-tested markets."
Micro E-mini equity index futures are one-tenth the size of CME
Group's existing E-mini equity index futures. The smaller size
allows active traders of all sizes to more nimbly execute equity
trading strategies, scale index exposure up or down or hedge
existing equity portfolio positions.
Micro E-mini equity index futures are listed by and subject to
the rules of CME and CBOT. For more information, please visit
cmegroup.com/microeminis.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures,
options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze
data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently
manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer
the widest range of global benchmark products across all major
asset classes based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform,
fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on
the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and
services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group
also offers optimization and reconciliation services through
TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks
of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile
Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange,
Inc. BrokerTec, EBS, TriOptima, and Traiana are trademarks of
BrokerTec Europe LTD, EBS Group LTD, TriOptima AB, and Traiana,
Inc., respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones
Industrial Average, S&P 500 and S&P are service and/or
trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC, Standard &
Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as
the case may be, and have been licensed for use by Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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